Friend:
Our petitioning drive to run Green candidates in North Carolina is
in full swing. The state is making us collect about 15,000 signatures,
on paper, from registered voters by May 2022 if we hope to run
candidates next year, and we need your help.
Petition with Us
This is the #1 way you can help: Please collect as many signatures
on our petition as you can from registered NC voters and mail them to
us. (Download
the petition here.) Even just 10, 20, or 30 signatures
from your friends and family would be a big help. But even so, we do
need a number of volunteers to commit to collecting a few hundred
signatures. We're offering stipends to those who can commit to
collecting 150 or more. Email [email protected]
if you're interested. Any registered NC voter can sign the petition,
regardless of political affiliation. Please print petition sheets
one-sided, and use a different sheet for each county—so if one person
is registered in Wake County and another person is registered in
Mecklenburg, you must write "Wake" on the top of one sheet and
"Mecklenburg" on the top of the other, and the person must sign the
sheet for their corresponding county.
To get started, download our ballot access petition and
tips/guidelines at our Petitioning
Page. At that page you can also sign up to volunteer and
to meet other petitioners in our Slack workspace, where we plan
petitioning actions. This fall we've petitioned at several
high-traffic events, including voting precincts around the state on
Election Day, the NC State Fair (Raleigh), Triangle Vegfest (Raleigh),
NCSU campus, Davidson College campus, African American Cultural
Festival (Raleigh), Shakori Hills music festival (Pittsboro), Carrboro
Really Really Free Market, Carolina Classic Fair (Winston-Salem), NC
Folk Festival (Greensboro), and more. Do you know of a high-traffic
location, event, or festival you'd like to petition at with us? Let us
know by signing up to volunteer at the Petitioning Page, and then
follow the steps to join our Slack workspace and coordinate with us
there. We try to pair new volunteers with an experienced petitioner or
party officer. Can you petition at a college campus with us? Let us
know.
Support Our Ballot Access Fund
We've received a generous $6,000 grant from the Green Party of the
United States to fund our petition drive. Our goal is to raise
$15,000, and we're about halfway there. Can you help us reach that
goal by supporting our Ballot
Access Fund? Your contributions allow us to:
- Pay petitioners and phonebankers
- Table at festivals and other events
- Cover printing, materials, and postage
- Send packets to supporters
- Distribute flyers door-to-door,
- And, ultimately, run radical candidates for office
Merchandise & Bookstore
Petition in NCGP gear! We have new T-shirt designs and
baseball-style hats at the party's new Merchandise
& Bookstore page. It's the official merch store of
the NCGP. Your donation there covers the cost of merch plus shipping
and tax, with a couple of dollars left over that go to supporting the
NCGP's work. We also offer 3 radical ebooks, one of which
is free!, so you'll want to check out the shop.
Your petitioning work and your contributions will allow the NCGP to
run radical candidates with hard-hitting platforms that challenge the
duopoly, like NCGP member Joshua
Bradley (running for Raleigh City Council at-large,
2022), who's calling for the abolition of the police as we know it
in favor of community policing.
Where to Send Petition Sheets
Do you have signatures to send in? Please mail your sheets to our
PO box at
NCGP Petition Drive PO Box
6022 Cary, NC 27519
If you need the NCGP to cover postage costs, let us know.
Thanks so much for all you do to support our radical,
ecosocialist alternative to the two-party system.
Solidarity,
Michael Trudeau NCGP secretary [email protected]
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